(10-06-2017 05:10 PM)nhawk7504 Wrote: I like ABS. I liked my CB500F because you could just bugger onto the brakes. It was light so I could just slam it.
I liked my CB500XA for the same reason. I had a woman speed up from behind me in the other lane of a highway and turn right at me because she was going to miss her exit. From 100 KPH to a dead stop. ABS and a lighter bike saved my butt.
I ride the back roads. It was routine for me to have to make a hard stop when animals ran out of the bush in front of me: wild turkeys, countless deer, and a black bear. Something about the sound of the CB500XA made them panic.
Oddly enough I don't have the same problem with the CB1100 EX. Maybe the quieter motor and louder mufflers keep them away?
When I rode in the 60s, 70s and 80s farm dogs would run to the bottom of the laneway to chase you. Oddly enough I have not had that happen on either bike over the last 4 years.